Women with this condition don't realize or accept they are with child. (Shutterstock)

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It's a good question. Why, asks Bruce Crumley in TIME, are French women killing their babies? It may have something to do with a little known, "quasi-schizophrenic" phenomenon called "pregnancy denial," he finds. Women with this condition "either don't realize or cannot accept that they are with child," a doctor says. And, he adds, it's not a French-only thing.

Women can become "so convinced pregnancy is impossible that once the child they never wanted arrives, they don't accept it as real and get rid of it," the doctor says. Or, as one psychologist tells the Independent, for some women a baby "is viewed more as an inconvenience, and something to be got rid of in the same way as you get rid of the trash."

Abortion is not a choice I would ever choose, but I'm glad it's there for those who NEED it. I don't believe that it should be used as a form of birth control though! If you don't want a baby- TAKE THE PROPPER PRECAUTIONS TO PREVENT THEM!!! There are too many people who dream of being Parents out there for this to be an option!

EileenRocks

Jul 30, 2010 2:32 PM CDT

I had to go to the Emergency Room this week, and prominently posted next to the door in 2 languages were signs that said it was a safe surrender site. Isn't this an option?

Rocket448

Jul 30, 2010 12:39 PM CDT

Does pregnancy denial have any basis in science? Or have some women grown so selfish and heartless that they can consider killing a newborn? Whatever, I'm sure we'll now hear from the anti-abortion folks who will use this story as proof that women should NOT be allowed to choose to bear a child or not. I am standing by for a tsunami of bad logic and groundless claims.